I hear ya, but to lure folks in with a slousand-dollar razzer won't be as effective as portraying a community in which to learn and start out slow and steady? Some may be intimidated by Mike's Gilchrist. ( I am!)

They are sitting and looking at a nice M Jung vintage.
Hoping to make it shave.

The forum should attract new guys, some with little knowledge, to perpetrate it'self.
I have seen so many come and grow in leaps/bounds in an amazingly fast period of time.
Teaching us older members lots of things!

So you might try to look at the front page in that manner. An introduction to the new/interested. I do.